The cold and frost came upon us hard and fast this year. After the relentless rains we had all summer, I felt lucky that the clouds lifted for long enough to get the fall yard chores wrapped up before ...

While our wild bird neighbors aren’t exactly livestock, they bring such joy and entertainment to our family as they visit our yard and provide valuable pest control for our gardens and orchard that we ...

If you give a bird a muffin ... it's probably not the healthiest idea. But if the "muffin" is made from tasty fat and seeds, that's definitely in line with a good avian diet. A mixture of the right ...

Cakes of suet in a suet bird feeder will help sustain your avian friends through the winter. My mother gave me this recipe for making cakes for a suet bird feeder. Save the fat trimmings from beef, ...

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Dozens of birds love suet, especially woodpeckers. But backyard bird hosts face a confusing array of packaged suet combos. How to choose? In short, it's not by price. True suet is the fat that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you give a bird a muffin ... it's probably not the healthiest idea. But if the "muffin" is made from tasty fat and seeds, ...